Cultural amnesia about Violence by
Women (VbW) is the direct result of censorship and avoidance fostered by feminist
professionals who see a benefit to their political agendas in diminishing the
amount of knowledge available to scholars, professionals, government officials
and the general public.

Cathy Young is one of the rare
high-profile journalist to risk discussing this state of affairs in public.

The murder charge was filed after Robert Isham, chemist, had
reported to County Attorney Boatman he had discovered traces of poison in the
boy’s vital organs, which were removed following funeral services September 9.

A corner’s jury will meet Thursday to order the body of an
orphaned nephew of Mrs. Owens woman exhumed. The boy, 8 years old, died a year
ago under circumstances said to have suggested poisoning.

FULL TEXT (Article 2 of 4): Kansas City, Jan. 8. – Already
accused of poisoning three persons and the hand of suspicion pointing to four
other deaths, Mrs. Mae Hamilton, 37-year-old divorcee, is in the Okmulgee,
Okla., awaiting trial as the state points to her as a modern Borgia.

Evidence compiled by A. N. Boatman, county attorney, brands
the woman as the slayer of her own 15-year-old son, John Courtland Hamilton;
Earl Glen Cox Hamilton, 8-year-old adopted son, and F. M. Baker, 44, Oklahoma
oil man, who the county attorney says was the woman’s fiance.

The graves of the two boys and Baker have been opened and
autopsies revealed deadly quantities of strychnine. With the discovery of the
poison it was learned by the prosecutor that Mrs. Hamilton was the beneficiary
of insurance policies held by her father and mother, who died after a brief
illness in 1922.

~ VIOLENT DEATHS. ~

A sister and brother also died violent deaths, the county
attorney says he has learned. With this to start on, he has begun negotiations
with the states in which the four are buried to have their bodies exhumed.

In his reconstruction of what he believes was the work of a
second Borgia, the prosecutor will base his hope for a conviction on evidence
tending to show the two boys and Baker also met their deaths with their
insurance as the goal of the slayer.

He points to the fact that Mrs. Hamilton’s own son was
insured for the maximum amount allowed children of his age and that her adopted
son was also insured for a small amount.

Further to establish what he believes is a motive, he points
to the attempts of Mrs. Hamilton to collect the insurance left by Baker, which
was awarded a former wife in court.

With this web of evidence woven by the state, Mrs. Hamilton
sits in her cell staunchly denying the accusation of murder and pleading mother
love to break down the case of the state.

~ MOTHER’S DEFENSE. ~

“They say I poisoned my baby. But they know he died suddenly
from meningitis, and that my adopted son died of the same disease, and they lie
when they say I put poison in water I gave to Mr. Baker while he was in a
hospital.”

Gossipy neighbors, who envied her motor car and the home she
purchased after the death of her parents and the two boys, are blamed by the
accused woman for her arrest and what she calls the “brutal” opening of the
graves of her loved ones.

“They opened the graves of my boys, cut up their bodies and
then only buried half of them again, and then they said they found poison,”
Mrs. Hamilton charges from her cell.

Her stay in jail has made her vindictive and bitter.

Instead of an insanity plea, as first was expected, Mrs.
Hamilton is going to face a trial judge with mother love as her only defense.

When she comes into court for her fight for life – murder
being punishable by death in Oklahoma – Mrs. Hamilton must explain why she
refused to accept outside help in nursing her two boys when they died within a
month of each other last summer.

~ STOMACH DISORDER. ~

Both died in convulsions, the state has found after
consulting medical records, which gave the cause of death as an acute stomach
disorder, although the accused woman insists it was meningitis.

To combat the phase of the triple charge against her, Mrs.
Hamilton again will rely on “mother love” to save her from the brand of
“Borgia” that a conviction will carry. It was natural, she has said, that a
mother would refuse to yield her place at the sickbed of her son.

It is charged by the state that each drink of water she gave
the little boys, contained a small amount of strychnine, until finally the
increasing poison in their stomach brought death. The boys, like Baker, died in
convulsions. That Prosecutor Boatman contends, pointing to authorities in the
medical world, is one of the first indications of poison.

Scarcely had the tragic deaths of the two boys occurred
until Baker, alleged sweetheart of the accused woman, was stricken with typhoid
and taken to the Okmulgee hospital. The day before he died, it is charged, Mrs.
Hamilton gave him a drink of water in the absence of the nurse. The next night
he died in convulsions, but it was believed typhoid was the cause.

It was not until Mrs. Hamilton, had been arrested and the
bodies of the boys exhumed that a nurse recalled that Baker received a drink of
water from Mrs. Hamilton the day before he died. His body then was exhumed and
strychnine found in the stomach. With Mrs. Hamilton’s attempts to collect the
Baker insurance suggesting a possible motive, the state added another charge of
first degree murder, putting the total to three.

As the case gained publicity the prosecutor heard of the
unexpected deaths of the woman’s parents in Eldorado Springs, Mo., in 1922, and
the deaths of her brother and sister in Kansas the next year.

“We have evidence which indicates we are on the trail of a
modern Borgia, who sat by the bedside of loved ones and fed them poison in
their last hours,” says County Atty. Boatman in his only comment on the
greatest murder mystery in the history of Oklahoma.

Mrs. Hamilton has been married twice, divorced once and has
not lived with her second husband for more than a year. She explains she left
her second husband because he was unkind to children, to further support of her
defense that mother love would not permit any woman to poison her own child.

Prosecutor Boatman accepts mother love as the most lofty of
all human traits, but demands that Mrs. Hamilton prove to the satisfaction of
twelve men that she did not have anything to do with the death of the two boys
and Baker.

Already in jail more than six months, Mrs. Hamilton faces a
longer wait for trial with the possibility her case will be postponed until
late in the spring to permit her attorney to attend the state legislature.

FULL TEXT (Article 3 of 4): Omulgee, Okla., April 26. – The
difficult task of selecting a jury for the trial of Mrs. Mae Hamilton, who is
charged with poisoning three members of her family for her insurance, was
started here Tuesday in the State District Court.

Attorneys for both State and defense predicted that a
special venire or sixty and the forty remaining from last week’s panel will be
exhausted.

Large crowds or curious persons were disappointed when most
of them were unable to find seats or standing room not occupied by the jurors
or some of the seventy witnesses.

Mrs. Hamilton will be tried first on the charge of
administering poison to her son John Courtland Hamilton, 14, for his insurance
money. A vigorous attack on the State’s mainstay, an analysis that is alleged
to have disclosed the poison in the body, will be the backbone of the defense.

Mrs. Hamilton also is accused of the death of Buster Cox
Hamilton, her foster son, and F. M. Baker.

FULL TEXT (Article 4 of 4): Omulkgee, Okla., May 4. – The
next trial of Mrs. Mae Hamilton, accused of poisoning her son, probably will
not be held after July 1, when the beginning of the new fiscal year makes
available more money for the jury fund, County Attorney A. N. Boatman said last
night following discharge of the jury hopelessly deadlocked after 43 1/s hours’
deliberation.

After a week of terrific legal struggle, beginning with the
attorneys, continuing with the witnesses and passing on into the jury room, the
jury was dismissed at 6:30 p. m. yesterday by District Judge John L. Norman
when he was convinced they could not possibly agree. A distinct line was drawn
between two groups of jurors, with seven on one side for conviction and five
for acquittal, and not once was the line crossed after the first vote, the
court was told. A mistrial was declared and the defendant returned to the
custody of Sheriff John Russell.

Disagreement was based solely on the guilt or innocence of
Mrs. Hamilton and not on a question of the testimony, the jurors declared. They
sat tired and wan, in the little jury box in the county courtroom while their
foreman told of their long fight to convince each other.

False rape accusations are used as a weapon of war by the
German military in an organized attempt to destabilize the allied occupation.
The US military’s usual punishment for rape committed by one of its members was
execution.

An article that discusses the arrests of a series of false
rape accusers. Such cases seldom made the news until fairly recently due to the
fact that most false rape accusations are typically identified before arrest
and until recently the accused were not routinely arrested – and their arrest
publicized – without appropriate investigation.

Monday, May 25, 2015

The title of the 1610 pamphlet
tells the story (archaic spelling is retained): The bloudy mother, or The most inhumane murthers, committed
by Iane Hattersley vpon diuers infants, the issue of her owne bodie: & the
priuate burying of them in an orchard with her araignment and execution. As
also, the most loathsome and lamentable end of Adam Adamson her Master, the
vnlawfull begetter of those vnfortunate babes being eaten and consumed aliue
with wormes and lice. At east Grinsted in Sussex neere London, in Iuly last.
1609.

[T. B.
(Thomas Brewer) The bloudy mother, or The most inhumane murthers, committed
by Iane Hattersley vpon diuers infants …, London: printed by Iohn
Busbie, and are to be sold by Artheur Iohnson in Paules Churchyard at the signe
of the White Horse, 1610]

***

EXCERPT: The case of Jane
Hattersley shows the importance of neighbours in the discovery of infanticide.
Jane was a young servant who had been committing adultery with her master for a
number of years. On a number of occasions she had became pregnant and murdered
the newborn child. The second time when she was ‘mistrusted to be with child,
she was searched by women and was found to be so’, however, she was ‘presently
seene around againe well, and so little ... as was justly suspected.’

Her third pregnancy and infanticide was also commented upon
by her neighbours. Frances Foorde a neighbour came to her house during her
labour and heard through the door ‘the shriek of a newborn infant’, which she
did not see or hear again, although Jane came out to talk to her.

This evidence was given at her trial and led to her eventual
execution.

[Laura Spence, Women Who Murder In Early Modern England,
1558-­1700, Dissertation, University of Warwick, September 2010, pp. 34-5]

***

The illustration above was taken from of an account of a different, and later, case: Bloody Newes from Dover. Being a True Relation of the Great and
Bloudy Murder, Committed by Mary Champion (an Anabaptist) who Cut off her Childs Head, being 7. weekes
old, and Held it to her Husband to Baptize. Printed in the Yeare of
Discovery, Feb. 13. 1647 (London: S.N).

Tuesday, May 5, 2015

A good share of the cases cited here are ones that have been completely overlooked by criminologists, including those crime scholars who specialize in the study of serial killers and female criminality.

“I want my fun. I need you to get my fun.” She told her
friend, when she asked him to provide transportation in her hunt for the next
victim.

***

►Elena
Lobacheva – Moscow, Russia – 25-year old sexual sadist, with her
20-year-old male accomplice, whose alternative sexuality preference involved
stabbing 12 men (up to 107 times), all strangers, randomly selected, to death,
and photographing them “with their stomachs cut open.” She was inspired by the
movie “Bride of Chucky,” and has a tattoo of the character on her arm. (2015)

Mrs. Clifford found the youngest child apparently dying from
starvation, and was told by one of the women that Mrs. McCloskey had been angry
because the other infant had been removed, and had struck the little one,
saying:

“We are not assassins! We did not stab our husbands. We did
not hang them or drown them either! They died from poison and this was a
pleasant death for them!”

***

► Anujka
de Poshtonja (Anna Pistova) – Vladimirovac, Yugoslavia (Serbia) – Sold
poison for the murder of primarily husbands to women for 50 years before being
arrested at the age of 90. She was known as “The Witch of Vladimirovac.” (1928)

To a
young police sergeant: “I work with the devil, young man. If you imprison me
you’ll remember it to your dying day. Don’t play with the forces of evil.”

“I am an enemy of the male sex. Years ago a man wronged medeeply and broke my girl’s heart. I
vowed to be revenged on him and his sex. I have kept my word, for I have made
men suffer something of what I have suffered. They may say I am responsible for
the death of these men, and they may even take my life for what they call my
crime. If they do I shall be glad to die with the knowledge that I have paid my
debt in full. I do not deny that I have derived pleasure from the sufferings of
the men they call my victims. I have enjoyed every pang they suffered, every
agony they endured. Pangs and agony have been balm to my wounded and bruised
heart. My one regret is that I was not able to strike directly at the man who
wronged me.”

***

► Lillian
B. Thornman – York, Pennsylvania – A 15-year old servant girl murdered a
child who was “roasted from head to toe” by placing the youngster on the stove.
She had murdered 2 children the same way previously. (1906)

Lillian Thornman’sconfession contained this remarkable statement: “I am a devil and I will
burn them.”

She stated: “Yes, I killed them all and would have killed
more if I had the chance.” Then she referred to arsenic as her “truest friend.”
Before being beheaded in July 1811, she told her executors “It is perhaps
better for the community that I should die, as it would be impossible for me to
give up the practice of poisoning people.”

***

Cultural amnesia about Violence by
Women (VbW) is the direct result of censorship and avoidance fostered by feminist
professionals who see a benefit to their political agendas in diminishing the
amount of knowledge available to scholars, professionals, government officials
and the general public.

Cathy Young is one of the rare
high-profile journalist to risk discussing this state of affairs in public.